Judy H. Tucker

Don Noble

9:26 am

Thu December 16, 2004

These are pretty good stories, and they are, in a painfully realistic way, Christmas stories.

By Don Noble

This volume of holiday stories presents me with a dilemma. If the stories had been really sentimental, sappy, cloying, filled with heartwarming goo, Christmas miracles, touched by an angel, etc., etc., I would have complained bitterly. But they're really not. They are so unsentimental I found myself feeling a little dismayed and depressed.